1720 in music

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See also: 1719 in music, other events of 1720, 1721 in music, list of years in music.

Contents 1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Opera 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• Royal Academy of Music opens in London.
• Domenico Scarlatti arrives in Lisbon.

Classical music

• Prelude for Lute in C minor - Johann Sebastian Bach
• Horae Pomeridianae - Jan Josef Ignac Brentner
• Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris - Marin Marais
• Messa di Santa Cecilia - Alessandro Scarlatti

Opera

• Radamisto - George Frideric Handel
• La verità in cimento - Antonio Vivaldi

Births

• January 4 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, composer
• November 16 - Carlo Antonio Campioni, composer
• exact date unknown - Maria Teresa d'Agnesi, singer and composer
• probable - Bernhard Joachim Hagen, composer

Deaths

• July 27 - Johann Samuel Welter, composer
• July - Maria Barbara Bach, first wife of Johann Sebastian Bach